Franciscan monastery Leipzig

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The Leipzig Franciscan Monastery was a Franciscan monastery that existed from the first half of the 13th century until the Reformation .

history

The Franciscans received permission to build a monastery next to the fortress of Margrave Dietrich , which was razed in 1224 , and founded a convent there around 1250 , which was first mentioned in 1261 and belonged to the Saxon Franciscan Province . The square was in the northwest of the city on today's Matthäikirchhof.

In the second quarter of the 13th century, a simple hall church was built, which was followed by the enclosure to the north . The church was consecrated to the Holy Spirit , but was mostly called the barefoot church because the Franciscans went barefoot or in sandals because of their vows of poverty . A Gothic choir was added to the church in the 14th century .

In the last quarter of the 15th century, a new cloister was built south of the church because the city had cleared the gun yard that had been there until then. This made it possible to expand the church to the north. Construction began in 1488. A two-aisled Gothic hall church with cross-shaped central pillars and a high saddle roof was created, although the previous choir was retained. The bishop of Merseburg Thilo von Trotha consecrated the church in 1502.

In the course of time the monastery acquired considerable property. In order to do justice to their order of needlessness, z. B. 1458 the Franciscans of the city of Waldteile im Rosental . They also ran a beguinage in the city, a semi-monastic institution for women with work opportunities and a certain security of supply.

After the Reformation was introduced in Leipzig in 1539, the monastery was abolished and the religious were expelled in the same year. In 1543 the monastery was finally vacated by the Franciscans. Elector Moritz sold it to the city. The choir was torn down, the cloister was redesigned into a residential area and from 1552 the church was used as a storage area by the Leipzig merchants.

From 1671 efforts began to restore the building as a church, which eventually led to the Matthäikirche , which was destroyed in the Second World War.

The Barfußgässchen that led from the market to the monastery is still reminiscent of the former Franciscan monastery.

literature

C [arl] Evers: The Franciscan Barefoot Monastery in Leipzig. Leipzig 1880

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony (ed.): City of Leipzig - Die Sakralbauten , Munich 1995, ISBN 3-422-00568-4 , pp. 684–6
  2. ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History: Chronological outline of the history of the Saxon Franciscan provinces from their beginnings to the present. Werl 1999, p. 49.51.
  3. ↑ a b Leipzig Lexicon
  4. ↑ Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. , PRO LEIPZIG 2005 ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , p. 470
  5. ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Werl 1999, p. 291.

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 29 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 16 ″  E